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April 12th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Witnesses say police used tear gas to disperse the demonstrators who were calling for political and economic reforms in the kingdom on Friday.
Pro-reform rally in Irbid comes almost two weeks after Jordan’s smallest government in four decades, led by Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, took office.
Jordanians have been holding street protests demanding political reforms, including the election of the prime minister by popular vote, and an end to corruption, since January 2011. Currently the king appoints the prime minister.
Since the beginning of protests, Jordanian ruler, King Abdullah II, has sacked four prime ministers in a bid to avoid more protests. Ensour is Jordan’s fifth premier in two years.
Jordanians, however, say Ensour, who claims to be a reformist, will not introduce real reforms and that his government will be a failure just like past governments.
Ensour, who was serving as interim prime minister before elections in January, cut fuel subsidies late last year in a bid to tackle a budget deficit of 3.5 billion dinars (USD 5 billion).
The sweeping subsidies decision, which increased prices of household cooking gas by just over 50 percent, diesel and kerosene by 33 percent, and low-grade gasoline by 15 percent, triggered weeks of protests in Jordan.
Ensour’s government is tasked with pushing through austerity measures required under a loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Jordan is facing over a USD 3 billion deficit this year and the IMF demanded that Jordan abolish the subsides to qualify for a USD 2 billion loan.
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